| 单词 |
Sheol |
| 释义 |
‖ Sheol|ˈʃiːəʊl, ˈʃiːəl|
[Heb. sh⊇'ōl.]
The underworld; the abode of the dead or departed spirits, conceived by the Hebrews as a subterranean region clothed in thick darkness, return from which is impossible. (Very common in the Revised Version of the O.T., where in the A.V. it was translated ‘hell’, ‘grave’, or ‘pit’.)
⁋In recent slang sometimes jocularly substituted for ‘hell’.
1599Broughton's Let. xiii. 45 Sheol, at the best, either is not Heauen,..or else there is a third place besides Heauen and Hell called Sheol for the Saints to rest in. 1642Of Article of Creed ‘Christ descended to Hades’ 2 Christs soule did descendere ad Inferos, or goe to Sheol or Hades. 1822R. Scott Script. Claims of Devil 499 We cannot..interpret the term Sheol, as referring to a Hell of eternal torments. 1873F. C. Cook in Speaker's Comm. IV. 63/1 Nor is the state of the just in Sheol ever represented as one of suffering. 1889[see rah int. and n.]. 1890J. Fyfe (title) The Hereafter: Sheol, Hades, and Hell. 1903A. M. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise v. 117 Briefly, Dickie, I have been out all night and there's sheol to pay. 1920B. Cronin Timber Wolves vii. 116 Them big bugs are the meanest things this side sheol.
attrib.1910J. Orr in Expositor Nov. 398 Ghostly survival in some Sheol-like condition of semi-existence. |
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